..Other features include venous thrombi and acute ischemic changes of the intestine. Surgical resection of the affected bowel is usually curative and recurrences are rare. The clinical and histopathologic features of ELP are reviewed...

..Lymph node involvement in pancreatic cancer is a predictor of poor patient long-term survival. The detection of multiple metastatic peri-pancreatic nodes by EUS-FNA may dissuade the surgeon from undertaking a curative pancreatic resection...

A prospective control study of the safety and cellular yield of EUS-guided FNA or Trucut biopsy in patients taking aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or prophylactic low molecular weight heparin